KOBO!!

…AKA the secret project that I’ve been dying to talk about for a while now! 😅

Who was around when I was showing you Q1 of my proposed 2026 roadmap? I said that I was going to give each 4-week block in the year a different focus…and then blocks two and three had the same focal point… 🤨

Well, that was me anticipating that I’d be working on the Kobo integration then and I needed some cover because I knew I wouldn’t be able to talk about it until there was some kind of announcement. 🤐

For anyone this far into the email who is wondering: What exactly is she talking about??

Well, coming sometime this month, Kobo users will be able to automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph. 🙌🏾

Instead of writing more about this today, I figured I’d do something a little bit different. I’m opening the floor to your questions; an AMA if you will.

Send in 1-3 questions — please be as brief and succinct as possible 🙏🏾 — that you have about this partnership/integration and, assuming I get at least a few good ones, next week’s issue will include a Q&A section. ✨

I can now share an updated roadmap for the next few months:

And another thing I will say is that I had been looking forward to the announcement for so long and then it finally came on the 19th…and then just went… Everything felt like business as usual by the 21st, so it was especially touching when my bestie, Jacinda, surprised me with a deck to commemorate the moment. 🥹

Here are some snippets:

StoryGraph is Boring!!

Someone posted this on X after the announcement:

I didn’t think too much of it, but it sparked a lot of chatter:

I see both sides and I still think there’s a lot we need to improve on with our UI and UX. I’m continuing to work on it and I really hope to reach my main goals by the end of this year.

I’m always touched when people come out to defend us, especially when it comes across as them trying to protect my feelings. As I’ve written about before though, I think a big part of my success so far is not taking critiques on the product personally, but always trying to understand why someone might have a particular opinion and what, if anything, I can do about it.

Londoners, where you at?

Random! I have two unique requests for people living and working in London. 👀

1. Some of you may recall that one of my side quests right now is helping Jacinda build up her fitness business. While doing a shoot last week for her upcoming website, we came up with an idea for an in-person consultation/form check service, and we’d like to flesh it out. So if you’d be down for a discounted 1:1 in-person 1.5/2-hour-ish fitness consultation/one-off PT session — think along the lines of walking you through a new plan that you’d go away and do yourself or form checks on common lifts and exercises — then hit Reply and let me know! 🏋️‍♂️
   

2. Are you a primary school teacher in London who has run school trips, or do you know one? Are you open to a 20-30 minute customer interview with me? I have another secret project that I’m working on and I need to do some research. 🕵🏾‍♀️

What I’m Reading

Started The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (author of short story Brokeback Mountain) today. It’s a fave of one of my besties so I’m very excited. 50 pages in and so far very very good. 😁

Have a great June,

Nadia